Game Instructions:
As a society, there are things we can do together to help other people and to protect the environment. These are called social justice and environmental issues. This game will teach you about how we can use good ideas and strategies to improve the world for everyone’s benefit.
This game will also teach you about a variety of social justice and environmental issues – problems that we can solve together as a society. The issues used in this game are all current, real problems affecting Canadians across the country. While playing this game, you will defend your chosen issue, while helping each co-player defend their chosen issue as well. You will start your token at square 1 and move along the gameboard just like in regular Snakes and Ladders game. The goal of the game is for all players to reach square 100. Reaching square 100 shows that a player has become a champion for change on their chosen issue! This means they have raised awareness and successfully pressed for action on their chosen issue, helping to make the world a better place. When all players reach square 100, it shows that everyone has worked together cooperatively to defend each player’s issue. It means each player has helped come up with great ideas and strategies to defend the other players’ issues. Everyone becomes a champion for change!
Just like in real life, there are risks that may make your goal of defending your issue harder and slower to reach, like people not understanding the problem or not wanting to get involved. On this gameboard, risks are represented as objects you might slide down on, like tubes or slides. Luckily, real life also gives us opportunities to advance a cause faster, like coming up with convincing ideas and being able to communicate them effectively. On the gameboard, these opportunities to go faster are the ladders. In this game like in life, good ideas can help you advance faster (by climbing up the ladders) and good strategies can help you avoid the risks of falling back.
In this game, you will share your great ideas and strategies with your co-players. This way, you will see that change for the better happens when we work together. We all win when everyone wins.
Materials:
• Printed gameboard
• 2 regular dice
• 8 Issues papers (two age groups)
• Ideas cards (cut out from 8 on a page, two age groups)
• Strategies cards (cut out from 8 on a page)
• Token for each player (8 cut-out models provided).
Find the game procedure in the attached PDF.
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